I work at my county’s health department helping with the vaccination process and I can confirm that you are scheduled for two weeks out exactly when your first shot is done. If you miss that date or have to reschedule you are put on a waiting list for a different date in time, I don’t have access to the list, but I also assume it’s scheduled for you again with the hopes things will just work out.
I take inbound calls sometimes and many people are worried if they cancel they won’t ever get, or since it’s been longer than 2 weeks “something” would happen where they wouldn’t get full immunity. If you’ve been reading these posts for a while I don’t think it should be surprising that lay people take the knowledge they are given on the covid issue without question. I think for most cases that’s reasonable and tends to work well.
Our department is greatly over worked as well. when we register people in our system we try to put their preferred contact information as email since that is sent out automatically when that person is in the available age / priority group. If they sent their preferred method as call they might not ever get a call telling them they can schedule for appointments since we have very few staff (I haven’t met any) who do outbound calls or have the time to do them. This has a major impact in our elderly community as they usually can’t figure out technology as well as younger people, and the vaccination registration slots will be filled by the people that can work computers.
I have had many times older people call our vaccination line and wonder why they haven’t been called to be scheduled after signing up so long ago, only to see they have been sent an email months ago but nobody could call them to tell them to register. When I was working at the vaccine clinic earlier today one guy wondered in, said he never got a confirmation time since nobody called but it had been two weeks since his first dose, sure enough he was scheduled for today and we got him his second dose.
I’m not high enough to know any more logistics or bottleneck issues other than that, but like most massive projects it’s chaotic, with information changing rapidly, and little optimizations and setbacks happening all the time. To leave this post on a hopeful note, if they show up to our clinic and are in an eligible group, if we have shots left to give we get them registered and get them the shot that day. We also push through the spouses of the people there getting vaccinated as well. Most other vaccine workers like me try to push through as many people as we can as painlessly as possible, fighting the grinding wheels of bureaucracy as much as we can. We understand we are here to vaccinate, not pencil push, little formalities are easily overlooked. I hope it’s the same for clinics in other parts of the state’s as well.
I work at my county’s health department helping with the vaccination process and I can confirm that you are scheduled for two weeks out exactly when your first shot is done. If you miss that date or have to reschedule you are put on a waiting list for a different date in time, I don’t have access to the list, but I also assume it’s scheduled for you again with the hopes things will just work out.
I take inbound calls sometimes and many people are worried if they cancel they won’t ever get, or since it’s been longer than 2 weeks “something” would happen where they wouldn’t get full immunity. If you’ve been reading these posts for a while I don’t think it should be surprising that lay people take the knowledge they are given on the covid issue without question. I think for most cases that’s reasonable and tends to work well.
Our department is greatly over worked as well. when we register people in our system we try to put their preferred contact information as email since that is sent out automatically when that person is in the available age / priority group. If they sent their preferred method as call they might not ever get a call telling them they can schedule for appointments since we have very few staff (I haven’t met any) who do outbound calls or have the time to do them. This has a major impact in our elderly community as they usually can’t figure out technology as well as younger people, and the vaccination registration slots will be filled by the people that can work computers.
I have had many times older people call our vaccination line and wonder why they haven’t been called to be scheduled after signing up so long ago, only to see they have been sent an email months ago but nobody could call them to tell them to register. When I was working at the vaccine clinic earlier today one guy wondered in, said he never got a confirmation time since nobody called but it had been two weeks since his first dose, sure enough he was scheduled for today and we got him his second dose.
I’m not high enough to know any more logistics or bottleneck issues other than that, but like most massive projects it’s chaotic, with information changing rapidly, and little optimizations and setbacks happening all the time. To leave this post on a hopeful note, if they show up to our clinic and are in an eligible group, if we have shots left to give we get them registered and get them the shot that day. We also push through the spouses of the people there getting vaccinated as well. Most other vaccine workers like me try to push through as many people as we can as painlessly as possible, fighting the grinding wheels of bureaucracy as much as we can. We understand we are here to vaccinate, not pencil push, little formalities are easily overlooked. I hope it’s the same for clinics in other parts of the state’s as well.